Reasons for French Imperialism
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- The French needed natural resources like coal iron, and steel for manufactoring.
- They needed new markets for trading goods.
- They received a large amount of pride in controlling a lot of land ,due to nationalism.
- They were racing to capture colonies.
- They believed that there were a better, stronger race then other civiliizations.
- They had modern technologys such as steam engines and machine guns.
- New technologies made it easy to control colonies.
- Places in Africa had rich mineral resources such as copper and tin.
- They could develop cash crops and grow peanuts, palm oil, cocoa and produce rubber.
- They wanted to expand their empires by controlling colonies in Africa such as Algeria and Madagascar.
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